Human Rights Action submitted today an initiative to the President of the Parliament of Montenegro, Ranko Krivokapić, to ensure that the Parliament provides authentic interpretation of the provision of Article 2 of the Pardon Law (Official Gazette of Montenegro, no. 31/12), prescribing the cases in which the President of the State may pardon, which is imprecise and allows different interpretations, even the extremely limiting interpretation that it is not possible to pardon persons who have been sentenced to prison for an offense, as the office of the President of Montenegro interpreted it in the context of an appeal for pardon of human rights activists from Beranselo.

Since we also concluded that no regulation in Montenegro prescribes providing an authentic interpretation of a law by the legislator – the Parliament of Montenegro, we appealed to the President of the Parliament to propose that this process should be prescribed again by the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament, as was previously the case.

A more detailed explanation of these initiatives is available in the letter submitted to the President of the Parliament (in Montenegrin) here.